Environmental and Public Health Issues
In ancient Rome many rich people got lead poisoning due to the fact that their pipes were made of lead. since many public leaders were wealthy, they too had these lead pipes that you could die from taking in enough of this tainted water, thus killing off many of them. many of the people who died of lead poisoning also used lead cooking utensils which tainted all the food they made using they cooking utensils. The Romans used lead pipes because they thought that lead was the father of all metals. This in part is because lead had a very low melting point and it was easy to make stuff out of it. The metal was also very abundant is certain parts of regions in the empire.by John Nunez Source: www.greenleyworldhistory.us , en.wikipedia.org
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